534 Clarence Avenue State College, PA 16803 Email: cll116@psu.edu ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2006 present Lecturer for the School of Labor and Employment Relations (SLER) and the Department of African and African American Studies (AAA S), renamed African American Studies (AF AM), University Park, Pennsylvania State University Teach resident and online sections of American Labor History, an upper-level writingintensive course, and an online Employment Relations course for LSER Teach online section of an introductory course in African American Studies for the Department of African American Studies Teach resident courses on Malcolm X; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Racism and Sexism; and Civil Rights and American Politics for AAA S/AF AM 2009 & 2012-2013 Wrote an online course on Twentieth Century African American Life and History for AAA S/AF AM. Created essays, quizzes with problem-solving questions, slide shows, graphics, and interactive maps for the course 2006 2009 Acted as Undergraduate Academic Officer for majors and minors in the SLER 2002 2006 Pre-doctoral lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Department of African and African American Studies Taught courses on Twentieth Century African American Life and History; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Racism and Sexism Taught resident and online sections of American Labor History for the SLER Fall 2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Department of History, Economics, and Political Science, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Taught seminar courses on the History of American Slavery; World History since 1500 1999 2002 Pre-doctoral lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Department of History Taught courses on American History since 1877; Western Civilization since 1500; African American History EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D., History, Pennsylvania State University; Dissertation: Black East St. Louis: Politics and Economy in a Border City, 1860-1945 1
1992 MA, History, University of Maine at Orono; Thesis: Civil Rights Activism in Maine from the 1940s to 1971: Black Mainers, Black and White Activists, and the Resistance against Racism 1977 MLS, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts 1976 BS, History and Sociology, Boston State College University of Massachusetts, Boston AWARDS 2009 The Illinois State Historical Society for the scholarly publication on a topic in Illinois history, American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics 2006 Pennsylvania State University, College of Liberal Arts Computer Technical Support award for writing an online course, Twentieth Century African American Life and History, for the Department of African and African American Studies 1999 2000 Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship 1998-1999 King V. Hostick Award, The Illinois Historic Preservation Society and The Illinois State Historical Society PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWING, AND VIDEO PRODUCTIONS 2014 Book review, Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) for North Carolina Historical Society Journal Peer reviewed manuscript Black Hartford's Freedom Struggle, 1917-70 for Wesleyan University Press Peer reviewed 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back. Cambridge University Press invited me to peer review the manuscript, which is the new title of the original, Making America Safe for Democracy, which I first peer reviewed in spring 2013. 2013 Forthcoming as chapter in book: Lumpkins, Charles. ""Race Riots" or "Pogroms"? Anti-Black Mass Violence in the African Diaspora of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century United States." In Africans in the Americas/African Americans in Africa: The Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in the 21st Century. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Invited. Peer-reviewed/refereed. [Accepted April 2013] 2012 Compiled, An East St. Louis Anthology: Origins of a River City (Edwardsville, IL: Institute for Urban Research, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; St. Louis, MO: Virginia Publishing) 2
2011 Manuscript reviewer for the Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press) 2010 Authored, Limits to Black Political Empowerment: The Historical Significance of Pre-1950 East St. Louis as a Foreshadow to Post-2008 Black Political Dilemmas in The Making of an All-America City: East St. Louis at 150 (Edwardsville, IL: Institute for Urban Research, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; St. Louis, MO: Virginia Publishing, 2010) 2008 Authored, American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Ohio University Press, 2008) 2007 Author-contributor of fifteen entries to the online version of Dictionary of American History, dynamic reference edition (Thomson/Gale) 2006 Author-contributor of several entries to Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 (Oxford University Press) Author-contributor of article to Maine s Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People, H.H. Price and Gerald Talbot, eds. (Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House Publishers, 2006) Pre-revision publication reviewer of American History in a Box for Pearson Longman Publisher 2005 Manuscript reviewer of Gary Chaison, Union in America, for Sage Publications 2003 Interviewee-contributor on Made in USA: The East St. Louis Story, PBS documentary, produced by KETC, St. Louis 1997 Author of Civil Rights Activism in Maine, 1945-1971, Maine History 36, 3-4 (Winter-Spring 1997): 70 85 1992-2005 Book reviewer of history and social science titles for Library Journal, 1992-2005 CONFERENCES 2012 Presented paper, Anti-Black Mass Violence in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century United States (and in the African Diaspora), Race Riots or Pogroms? Africans in the Americas and African Americans in Africa: The Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in the 21st Century, Annual Conference, New York African Studies Association (NYASA), 37th Anniversary, February 24 25, 2012, Pennsylvania State University, hosted by the university s African and African American Studies Department et al. 2011 Keynote speaker, Historical Legacies and Future Possibilities for East St. Louis, delivered on July 9, 2011, at the East St. Louis Sesquicentennial Summer Celebration, East St. Louis Higher Education Center, East St. Louis, Illinois sponsored by the Institute for Urban Research 3
at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the East St. Louis Action Research Project of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Commentator for the Panel, Revisiting 1919: New Perspectives on the World War One-Era Antiblack Riots, March 16-20, 2011, Houston, Texas, hosted by the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting 2010 Presented paper, Protesting and Reshaping Politics While Overcoming the Legacy of Fear of Racial Pogroms in 1930s East St Louis, Illinois, on the panel, Racial Violence in the Roosevelt Era, at the convention, The History of Black Economic Empowerment, September 29-October 3, Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2009 Presented paper, Unity and Division: Black and White Workers in East St. Louis, Illinois, 1870s-1940, on the panel, At the Confluence: Race, Class, Turmoil, and Violence in St. Louis and East St. Louis, 1830s-1920s, at the conference, Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New, May 28-31, Chicago, Illinois, sponsored by the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Fund for Labor Culture and History 2008 Presented paper, The East St. Louis Pogroms of 1917: A Tool That Placed Limits on African American Politics, on the panel, From East St. Louis, Illinois to the Ports of the United Kingdom: On Global Fault Lines of Racial Violence since the 1910s, at the conference, Rupture, Repression, and Uprising: Raced and Gendered Violence along the Color Line, April 3-5, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2006 Organizer of and Presenter on panel, Democratizing the Industrial Suburb? Black Activism, Racial Tensions, and the Struggle for Power and Equality in East St. Louis, Illinois ; Paper titled, To Smash Decades of Black Political Activism: The East St. Louis Pogrom of July 1917, at the Southern Historical Association Conference, November 18 2005 Presenter, The East St. Louis Pogrom of July 1917 to Destroy Black Political Activism, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, October 7 SERVICE TO COMMUNITY AND UNIVERSITY 2013 Elected for two-year term as President of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society 2013 Member, College of Liberal Arts Lecturer Policy Committee (May 2013 - September 2013) 2011-2012 Liaison for the Pennsylvania State University Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations to the Woody Guthrie Centennial Committee and its centennial anniversary Woody Guthrie concerts and conference, September 7 8, 2012 4
2011 Gave lecture on Martin Luther King, Jr., and economic justice for interested laypersons at the Village at Penn State, January 17, 2011 2010 Facilitated a workshop on professional development for undergraduate students at the Caribbean Student Association, Pennsylvania State University chapter, April 10 Taught six weeks seminar course, Racism and Racism in America, from Colonial Times to Obama, January and February, sponsored by State College, Pennsylvania, chapter of OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), an educational and social organization for adult laypersons 2008 Guest speaker, Historical What If s: What Would Malcolm X Think about the 2008 Democratic Party Primaries, interviewed on Pennsylvania Inside Out, WPSU (public television) and WPSX-FM (public radio), March 14, 2008, Pennsylvania State University Guest speaker, Demystifying Malcolm X s Legacy: Direction for 21st Century Social Change, February 21, 2008, Calvin H. Waller Lecture Series, Pennsylvania State University 2007 Judge of Students Presentations, The 2007 Achievement Conference: Life as We Climb: Empowering Others, Africana Research Center and the Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa, Undergraduate Research Symposium Presentation Review, February 10, 2007 ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIP American Historical Association Association for the Study of African American Life and History Labor and Working-Class History Association Organization of American Historians Organization of American Historians, Ellis W. Hawley Prize Committee, 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 Pennsylvania Labor History Society PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Reference and Cataloging Librarian, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1992-1997 Reference Librarian (part-time), University of Maine at Orono, 1990-1991 5
Assistant Librarian, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine, 1983-1990 Technical Services Librarian/Managerial Assistant III, Massachusetts State Library, Statehouse, Boston, 1981-1983 Cataloging and Reference Librarian, Northeastern University, Boston, 1980-1981 Technical Services Librarian, Beverly Public Library, Beverly, Massachusetts, 1977-1980 REFERENCES Available upon request 6